Man on a Tightrope
The owner of an impoverished circus in Communist-ruled Czechoslovokia plots to flee across the border to freedom, taking his entire troupe of performers and wild animals with him.
The Heart of the Matter
Based on Graham Greene’s novel, a married colonial police chief struggles with his conscience when he has an affair with a younger woman.
Women of the Night
In early post-war Osaka, three women—war widow Fusako, her Korean expat sister Natsuko, and Kumiko, Fusako’s sister-in-law—descend into prostitution, all for their individual reasons.
Hell’s Kitchen
A paroled convict’s efforts to improve conditions at a boys’ reform school alarm the school’s corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to…
Right Cross
A sportswriter forms a ring triangle with a fight manager’s daughter and her Mexican-American boxer.
The Search
In postwar Germany, a displaced Czech boy, separated from his family during wartime, is befriended by an American GI while the boy’s mother desperately searches for him.
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